Nice post. Another good example of this: http://www.videosift.com/video/The-grand-scheme-of-things

We are truly insignificant.

Yes, this is a nice post... I found another one here too that's a bit slower with some diameter & distance data:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-188856689734099300&q=sirius+sun&total=27&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=7

I've seen this here before...maybe gone? Great one.

You're right, SG it is *near *dupe. Here's the original, a bit shorter:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Size-Comparison-of-Various-Celestial-Bodies

Also a nice one here:

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-grand-scheme-of-things


Here's a really good one if anyone wants to post it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WEL117xXpw

And don't forget the "Powers of 10" videos here:

http://www.videosift.com/video/IBM-Powers-Of-Ten-amazing-9-minute-science-video

And here:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Spectrum-Natural-ends-of-time-and-space

And, of course, here:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Powers-of-ten-Simpsons-version



And jwray, there's an invite for you at the "Clouds and Beyond" Collective.

Sc

*geek

Video added to geek channel (geek called by gold star member ant)

There is problay other life out there that think we look like ants.

There is problay other life out there that think we look like ants.

Yes, but actually smaller planets would be more conducive to having very large life forms on land, because of the weaker gravitational pull. As you make larger and larger versions of a structure, its mass grows faster than its strength. If s is the scale than mass is O(s^3) and strength is very roughly O(s^2). This is one of the reasons why all sufficiently large planets are roughly spherical. This is why an ant can lift 20 times its own body weight but no known large creature can. This is why you can't build an arbitrarily long bridge without supports in the middle.

this video rocks. awesome music.

so am I bigger, relative to a single blood cell inside me, than the milky way is to me?

Music by Pell Mell

A google of galaxies over a googleplex of eons... and not one visitor? Odd. Maybe WE are now the "Elder Race" of the distant future. Or maybe not.

There could be a billion intelligent civilizations in the universe, with none of them less than 10,000 light years apart. If faster than light travel is impossible, it might take a very long time to get to our nearest neighbors, if we have neighbors.

thats just depressing

In reference to how mind-bogglingly massive (in space-time) the universe is, I also liked this:

http://www.videosift.com/video/How-the-view-of-the-universe-from-earth-evolves-with-time

if you people went to a second grade science class and actually listened, it would probably asplode ur headz.